I’ve been experimenting with .NET Gadgeteer. It’s an open-source toolkit for building small electronic devices, pretty much the same idea as the Arduino. Why Gadgeteer instead of Arduino? I don’t have a lot of spare time or room to work and Gadgeteer components don’t need to be soldered together, which takes a bunch of the work out of the process. Also some of the gizmos you can get are awesome. A color touchscreen! A joystick!
In this picture, I’ve built a tiny webserver –
…and here’s proof:
Hello 10.0.0.112!
The next step is to start sending photos, text and data back and forth to the web. Stay tuned…
I didn’t cook this up myself. I followed the instructions in this quality ebook: Getting Started with .NET Gadgeteer.